About the Author
Arthur Dexter was educated at Rotherham Grammar School and St Catherine's College, Oxford. After completing his doctorate, he spent one year as the Gas Council Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford before leaving in 1971 to accept the offer of a lectureship at Trinity College Dublin. He returned to Oxford in 1981 to take up a tutorial fellowship at Worcester College and a lectureship in the Department of Engineering Science. He was subsequently promoted, first to a Reader in Engineering Science in 1996 and then to a Professor of Engineering Science in 2002. He retired from this post in 2010 and is now an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College. He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a UK Chartered Engineer.
Throughout his career he has worked on a wide variety of projects involving the design of monitoring and control systems in the both the building services and process industries. His main areas of expertise are the implementation of embedded microprocessor systems, the design and simulation of computer-control schemes, the application of neurofuzzy techniques to highly uncertain systems and the monitoring and control of the thermal environment inside large buildings. He has co-authored two books on the design of microcomputers, co-edited a book on automated fault detection and diagnosis in buildings and published over 100 research papers in research journals and conference proceedings.
